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What can I do about my mental health when I don’t have the support I need?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What can I do about my mental health when I don’t have the support I need?

...by the Open University in Wales. You can learn more and find courses, articles and other activities on the collection's homepage. Try a FREE course Additional support Mind's information and support pages Call the Samaritans on 116 123, for free or look at the other ways of contacting them. The NHS Mental health - live well pages Take it further with The Open University...
Volunteers in Green Social prescribing: contributions and inclusion
Nature & Environment

Volunteers in Green Social prescribing: contributions and inclusion

...opportunities to learn new skills, for example, in basic sign language so that we can better connect with visitors who are deaf. We hope this article inspires you to get out and be a volunteer in nature if possible, or at least raise your awareness of the building blocks of health and local social prescribing schemes. Further links Beyond Greenspace Volunteer wellbeing...
Reading Between the Lines: uncovering racism and homophobia in British history
History & The Arts

Reading Between the Lines: uncovering racism and homophobia in British history

...article...The history of ‘othering’ and lesbianism in Britain [Hermaphrodite engraving circa 1690] Engraving representing contemporary ideas on hermaphroditism, circa 1690. In her book Passions Between Women: British Lesbian Culture 1668-1801, the Irish novelist Emma Donoghue has written a lively account of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British lesbian culture....
The historical and ongoing persecution of Europe’s gypsies
History & The Arts

The historical and ongoing persecution of Europe’s gypsies

...article explores the anti-Roma prejudice that still goes on today, and what can be done to tackle it...Find out about The Open University's History courses and qualifications [Our] ash was mingled in the ovens - why should we be remembered separately…? (Woolford & Wolejszo S, 2006). [Forced Roma female labourers at Ravensbrϋck concentration camp] Forced Roma female...
Hip Hop, Transculturation and Ethnography in Delhi
Education & Development

Hip Hop, Transculturation and Ethnography in Delhi

...article delves into the ethnographic fieldwork...Find out more about The Open University's Language courses and qualifications. Hip Hop Hip hop is a Black radical knowledge movement that emerged in post-industrial urban North America in the 1970s and that has now become a global phenomenon and source of cultural inspiration for marginalised youth from around the world....
Traditional Ecological Knowledges: Learning from the past to inform the future
Nature & Environment

Traditional Ecological Knowledges: Learning from the past to inform the future

...article explores Traditional Ecological Knowledges and how we can live more sustainably...The diversity of biota (that is the animal and plant life of a particular region, habitat, or geological period) in our world as well as the diversity of those who live in it is mind-bogglingly fascinating. From the biodiverse tropical jungles of Amazonia, to the unique fauna of...
Rastafari in Israel
History & The Arts

Rastafari in Israel

...article...My doctoral research focuses on diasporic and transnational contexts of Rastafari. I am interested in de-essentialising Rastafari, and over the next year or so I will be conducting fieldwork in Rome and London with different Rasta communities and groups. I see my approach as one that focuses on religion in motion, and it is an approach I began to develop when I...
What is shareholder activism?
Money & Business

What is shareholder activism?

...article/us-hedgefunds-activists-idUSKCN0ZL1KL Goergen, M., and Renneboog, L., 2001, Strong managers and passive institutional investors in the United Kingdom. In: Barca, F., and Becht, M. (eds), The Control of Corporate Europe, Oxford University Press Reuters, 27 May 2016, Hedge fund TCI backs Deutsche Boerse-LSE merger,